Quotes About Actors

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

With a screenwriter and with the actors there is always an environment of trust. You can say anything, all your secrets, and you know that it won't get out of that room.

I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.

So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.

Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of music, close- ups of the actors' faces, the camera slowly pulling away to let all this sink in for the viewer...but, in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper.

Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.

I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.

I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

Where are the Robert Redfords and Paul Newmans of my age group? I love James Franco, but where's the next James Franco? Where are the hunks who can act?

I love Stroker Ace. I love the whole team. Jim Nabors really stole the show, and Ned Beatty, well I've made more of my movies with Ned Beatty than anybody else.

When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.

I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

Some of the actors that I love most have challenged themselves throughout their entire career. That's my goal.

I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

I'm doing what I love, and then I get months and months of rest. I have a lot of money for a 21-year-old. I can't stand it when actors complain.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

I knew the President would run for reelection in 1984. Why not? Actors love sequels ... and returns.